Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…

A•s. 1. If you prove it a duty to believe and obey every such deceiver that hath no authority, we will not believe till you prove it, that to do otherwise doth unchurch us. 2. And if two or three claim authority over us at once (as they did in the Papacy about forty years together) are we cut off from Christ if we receive not both? or how shall we know which▪ If either will serve, then they that took John of Constantinople for Universal Bishop, were as much in the Church, as they that received Pope Boniface as such. And they that followed Dioscorus at Alexandria (being Orthodox), as they that adhered to Proterius? &c. Is it no matter who it be, so we think him to be the right? Why then do you deny our English Clergy, when we judg them to have the true authority?

A•s. 1. If you prove it a duty to believe and obey every such deceiver that hath no authority, we will not believe till you prove it, that to do otherwise doth unchurch us. 2. And if two or three claim authority over us at once (as they did in the Papacy about forty years together) are we cut off from Christ if we receive not both? or how shall we know which▪ If either will serve, then they that took Iohn of Constantinople for Universal Bishop, were as much in the Church, as they that received Pope Boniface as such. And they that followed Dioscorus at Alexandria (being Orthodox), as they that adhered to Proterius? &c. Is it no matter who it be, so we think him to be the right? Why then do you deny our English Clergy, when we judg them to have the true authority?

2. I asked, What if we be ignorant whether the ordainer had intentionem ordinandi, how shall we be sure of the authority of the Ordained?